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Some final thoughts on E-day Eve.
-Nate Silver at 538 has a scenario about how Democrats could defy the odds and pull off only minor hemmoraging tomorrow. His narration of how tomorrow night could go is spooky..and awesome- especially the part where someone at the NRCC punches a hole in a wall. Essentially, he thinks there’s room for error in 5 issues– the cell phone effect (or rather, the lack of cell phone users surveyed), problematic ‘robopolls’, problematic ‘likely voter’ models that favor the GOP, the awesome Democratic ground game (woo woo!), the general consensus that it’s not going to be as awful as it could be for the Dems. Let’s hope he’s right.
- Political Wire has a path to Democrats maintaining majorities in Congress– with a list of the important races to watch tomorrow night.
-In case you didn’t see this in the Sunday NYT, Frank Rich (who you should all read) really nails the country club elite that is the GOP leadership. We all worry about some of the crazy right wing candidates that might win tomorrow (Angle, Paul, Rubio, etc) but I think Rich has it right when he predicts that they won’t have any say in what legislation gets written and what programs get cut. It’s not going to be much of a (tea) party in Congress next year as some people think.
-Michael Kazin at The New Republic offers some thoughts on the Rally to Restore Sanity and why Jon Stewart isn’t enough. As liberals, we have to do MORE, be MORE engaged, vote MORE, engage eachother MORE. Satire will not save this country, even if it entertains us. Houston, we’re not in the Bush years anymore– do something tomorrow.
-Finally, to get you pumped up, here’s another comedian (this time, one who actually decided to take his political side and make himself a Senator.) GET OUT AND VOTE!
-Maddie
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